Ballad of Reading Gaol II (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Version IIHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
Oscar Wilde Poems on Sadness (25 Poems)
Ballad of Reading Gaol – I (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Version IHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
The Teacher Of Wisdom (Oscar Wilde Poems)
From his childhood he had been as one filled with the perfectknowledge of God, and even while he was yet ...
Endymion (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(FOR MUSIC.) THE apple trees are hung with gold, And birds are loud in Arcady, The sheep lie bleating in the fold, The wild ...
Athenasia (Oscar Wilde Poems)
To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naughtOf all the great things men have saved from Time,The withered ...
The Master (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Now when the darkness came over the earth Joseph of Arimathea,having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from the ...
The Sphinx (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
LA MER (Oscar Wilde Poems)
A white mist drifts across the shrouds, A wild moon in this wintry sky Gleams like an angry lion's eye ...
In The Gold Room – A Harmony (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees ...
HUMANITAD (Oscar Wilde Poems)
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
Athanasia (Oscar Wilde Poems)
To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naught Of all the great things men have saved from Time, ...
The Grave Of Shelley (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun-bleached stone; Here doth the little night-owl ...
Magdalen Walks (Oscar Wilde Poems)
The little white clouds are racing over the sky, And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower ...
The New Helen (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Where hast thou been since round the walls of Troy The sons of God fought in that great emprise? Why ...
ENDYMION (For music) (Oscar Wilde Poems)
The apple trees are hung with gold, And birds are loud in Arcady, The sheep lie bleating in the fold, ...
Panthea (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - I am too young to ...
My Voice (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Within this restless, hurried, modern world We took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I, And now the white ...
Ave Imperatrix (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, ...
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
The Burden Of Itys (Oscar Wilde Poems)
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
The Grave Of Keats (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God's veil of blue: Taken from life ...
CANZONET (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I have no store Of gryphon-guarded gold; Now, as before, Bare is the shepherd's fold. Rubies nor pearls Have I ...
Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Irae Sung In The Sistine Chapel (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring, Sad olive-groves, or silver-breasted dove, Teach me more clearly of Thy ...
The Garden Of Eros (Oscar Wilde Poems)
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
Ravenna (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...